angels and other weird beings

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2 total messages Started by Hubertus Franke Wed, 30 May 1990 18:30

#592

Author: Hubertus Franke
Date: Wed, 30 May 1990 18:30

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Recently the quotation "Ich weiss jetzt was ein/kein Engel weiss" got cited
frequently. The urgent call from <J.Wexler> for a comment from a real german
source woke me up. After all this discussion even I got confused. However I
believe the correct version is "kein". The quotation origins from the believe
that angels know most things going on in the world. A person using it wants
to express his/her excitement about something he/she discovered,
that he/she believes is not known to anybody else (including angels).

But may be I'm mistaken and there's angel who knows it.

                Hubertus Franke (franke@vuse.vanderbilt.edu)

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Re: angels and other weird beings

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Author: Nick Rothwell
Date: Thu, 31 May 1990 15:28

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In article <9005301830.AA27521@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>, franke@VUSE (Hubertus Franke) writes:
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>Recently the quotation "Ich weiss jetzt was ein/kein Engel weiss" got cited
>frequently. The urgent call from <J.Wexler> for a comment from a real german
>source woke me up. After all this discussion even I got confused. However I
>believe the correct version is "kein".

Which is how I have it quoted. In Wings of Desire, Damiel, an angel in
Berlin, crosses over to live a mortal life, having fallen in love with
a circus trapeze artist. In the process, of course, he learns about
the joys and trials of being human.

>                Hubertus Franke (franke@vuse.vanderbilt.edu)

		Nick.
--
Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
		nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick
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		   Ich weiss jetzt was kein Engel weiss

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